The determination and charakterization of some medicinal plant populations by geographic information system

The Determination and Characterization of Some MedicinalPlant Populations by Geographic Information SystemFatma GÜREThis research has been conducted in the pilot of Yenice town of Kazdağı,Çanakkale that has a rich flora in term of medicinal plants. The purpose of this studyis to determine the locations of some medicinal plant in Kazdağları flora, and toaloborate the potential of the area by characterizing the medicinal plant in theselocations. And yet, these two steps has been kept seperately.A compherensive database has been created by digitizing roads, water bodies,village borders, soil groups and the distribution of trees based on the forestadministration classes, from the 1/25 000 scale, topoghraphic, soil and forest maps.After that, the habitats of these plants was observed in field studies, and canopyplants, soil groups, aspects have been used in inquaries to determine the speciesdistribution. On the samples, that was taken during field studies, some agronomicand technological features such as were determined.Plant showed wide variability in term of studies character. Genotipic variationis very wide based on minimum and maximum values. That is why, this genotipicvariation would be the source of new genes. For further plant breeding programs. Byusing getic variation plant breeders would be able to improve adaption and qualityparameters.The present model study is hoped to reduce time and budget costs, that is thebiggest challenge of flora studies. The significance of the study comen in the form ofbeing the first example in the medicinal plant field.